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Discord Rich Presence with Ableton
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Installation instructions unclear - how do you use this thing? #2

Closed januszkrako closed 4 years ago

januszkrako commented 4 years ago

Hi. I can't find anything about this on the web - could you please clarify how to get this to work, from start to finish? Currently, the readme only tells you to put this in startup, which I have done. It seems so redundant at the moment.

Discord-ian commented 4 years ago

In theory, it should open up on reboot and just run in the background. I have been working on an update that adds it to the system tray, with a menu. Let me know if you've tried restarting, and if that didn't work I can get you a version that'll print out everything it's doing, so we can solve the issue

januszkrako commented 4 years ago

It does run in the background according to Task Manager. On startup, I'm getting an error saying 'Fatal Error Detected - failed to execute script presence'. How to fix? image

Discord-ian commented 4 years ago

There's a few possibilities of what happened

I missed an error while looking over 1.2.0 Something is different for your system so the application runs into an error Some other random thing

I've attached a build of the application with full output. It'll open a command window with a decent amount of debug info. Let me know if it ends up working. If it doesn't, attach a screenshot/text output of the terminal window so I can work on fixing the issue

I've posted the debug version here

januszkrako commented 4 years ago

image Hi, sorry for the overdue response. It detects the ableton client and my project title but I'm unsure on how to make it show up on discord now.

Discord-ian commented 4 years ago

Updated a few things within 55c34ab that should help. Go ahead and download 1.2.1 so you aren't stuck with the terminal constantly. Inside of Discord, make sure that you have "Display currently running game as a status message." turned on. That setting is inside of Game Activity.

Closing this issue in 2 days if I don't hear anything back

januszkrako commented 4 years ago

Haha. I understand an open issue isn't a good look. I'm still unsure on how to make the status appear correctly on discord though. I checked the 'Display currently running game as a status message' option, but I still don't see anything. AbletonPresence, Ableton Live and Discord are all running. This is all I see in that menu. image

Discord-ian commented 4 years ago

Are you set to Online (green) on Discord?

januszkrako commented 4 years ago

yes

Discord-ian commented 4 years ago

Interesting. It's showing that you're playing it in the game activity tab so it should be showing on your profile. Not exactly sure what else could be happening

januszkrako commented 4 years ago

It has just detected the normal Ableton Live application, but there is no additional status message that comes with it. Does the AbletonPresence app need to be selected as the running 'game' somehow by any chance?

januszkrako commented 4 years ago

As in, the status message shows that I'm running Ableton Live but none of the rich formatting stuff that AbletonPresence is supposed to do shows up.

Discord-ian commented 4 years ago

You might have the Ableton exe selected. I just looked for myself and it doesn't show any game there when the rich formatting stuff is active. I wonder if removing Ableton Live 10 (or whatever) from your "games" list would let the presence take over the status

januszkrako commented 4 years ago

I removed Live from my games list on discord. I also turned off Windows game mode and the 'do not disturb' list on my antivirus. The same thing happened. Any other suggestions? image

januszkrako commented 4 years ago

nvm it works. Just checked it with a buddy. Thanks for your trouble :)

Discord-ian commented 4 years ago

no worries! feel free to open up another one if something else arises